Re: Noise Pollution (was Digest Number 506)

["Randolph S. Little" <>]

NatureRecordists in the Rain:

Don't entirely abandon the umbrella as a useful tool for shielding
a tripod-mounted microphone from rain.  True, most umbrellas
make significant noise when drops of water fall on them, but that
noise can be effectively eliminated by laying a sweatshirt on top
of the umbrella.  Then you will still be left with the noise of rain
and water dripping in foliage which is in the pickup field of the
microphone; sometimes this can be accepted as "ambience"
but generally it is as polluting as any wind, surf, trains, planes,
automobiles, and recordist's gurgling stomach in the background.

C'est la guerre.

Good recording,
                              Randy
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